THE CANTERVILLE GHOST.  Although Oscar Wilde wrote the original short story, this updated  and VERY reinvented movie version (made in 1944) and starring Robert Young, was my favorite movie as a kid.  I felt SO BAD for the cowardly ghost played by Charles Laughton, and...

  Your siblings are your first peers. In many ways, you are who you are because of them. Pushovers are often a product of a domineering brother or sister. Overachievers usually became that way because of their superstar hyphenate sibling who not only was an...

Editor's Note: Generally, authors will, for Five Things, pick books, albums or films that had an impact on their lives. Today, Luke Delaney presents a list of events that literally changed his life, including illness, addiction (tobacco) and even a certain serial...

MY TOP FIVE MUSICAL INFLUENCES – Karin Salvalaggio   My childhood years can be mapped out in a series of top 40 hits that played on the radio so often you’d memorize every word without realizing it. Decades later I still get chills when I hear a song with a...

1. THE WIZARD OF OZ The movie that introduced me to fear. I know I’m nowhere near alone in this sentiment. It’s become almost a time-honored tradition to scare the bejesus out of small children with this move about a girl from Kansas who gets lost. What particularly...

      Five artists who have helped shape the course of my life   C.S.Lewis (deceased), author of children’s dreams As a kid, I couldn’t get enough of the Narnia Chronicles. I owned the entire series, reading each book more than once. Monsters, magic,...